Albert Borgmann is a philosopher/theologian from michigan. he speaks about how we have become detached from the culture of the stove, the culture that is focused around the hearth. we have forgotten what it truly means to be human - to be together, to be family, to be embraced.
in a remarkable book called "Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life", Borgmann argues that eating is one of the most truly human and theological acts that humanity can participate in:

"The great meal has its structure. it begins with a moment of reflection in which we place ourselves in the presence of the first and last things. It has a sequence of courses: it requires and sponsors memorable conversation; and all this enacted in the discipline called table manners. They are warranted when they constitute the respectful and skilled response to the great things that are coming to pass in the meal. We can see how order and discipline have collapsed when we eat a Big Mac...In a Big Mac the sequence of courses has been compacted into one object and the discipline of table manners has been reduced to grabbing and eating. The social context reaches no further than than the pleasant faces and the quick hands of the people who run the fast food outlet. In a festive meal however, the food is served, one of the most generous gestures human beings are capable of."